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The LINGUIST List is an online resource for the academic field of linguistics. It was founded by Anthony Aristar in early 1990 at the University of Western Australia, [1] and is used as a reference by the National Science Foundation in the United States. [2] Its main and oldest feature is the premoderated electronic mailing list, with ...
A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked with the applied fields of language studies and language learning, which entails the study of specific languages. Before the 20th century, linguistics evolved in conjunction with ...
James F. Allen (computer scientist) Robert Livingston Allen. Gregory Anderson (linguist) Stephen R. Anderson. Julie Tetel Andresen. Edna Andrews. Stephen Pearl Andrews. Elmer H. Antonsen. Joseph R. Applegate.
Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born Australian linguist. "He was a genuine rapid language learner, and before he was 40, was fluent in five of the Germanic languages, five of the Romance languages, three Slavic languages, in Arabic, Swahili, Turkish, Uzbek, Mongol, Mandarin, Tok Pisin, and Police Motu, and could get by in perhaps 30 ...
The history of linguistics in the United States began to discover a greater understanding of humans and language. By trying to find a greater ‘parent language’ through similarities in different languages, a number of connections were discovered. Many contributors and new ideas helped shape the study of linguistics in the United States into ...
Indigenous linguist and revitalization specialist. Bakró-Nagy, Marianne. Hungarian historical linguist and Finno-Ugrist. Bannon, Ann. (b. 1932) Lesbian pulp fiction author and linguist. Baptista, Marlyse. Cape Verdean contact linguist.
Helen Aristar-Dry is an American linguist who currently serves as the series editor for SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. [1] Most notably, from 1991 to 2013 she co-directed The LINGUIST List with Anthony Aristar. [2] She has served as principal investigator or co-Principal Investigator on over $5,000,000 worth of research grants from the National ...